Surgical repair of acute postinfarction cardiac rupture
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Critical Care Medicine
- Vol. 13 (4) , 244-245
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00003246-198504000-00007
Abstract
Acute myocardial infarction is complicated by cardiac rupture in 4% to 24% of all infarction deaths, and approximately 10% of hospital infarction deaths. There are no reliable indices to determine which patients run an increased risk of cardiac rupture. This report describes the surgical treatment and outcome of a patient who sustained a rupture of the left ventricular free wall, nine days after extensive anterior myocardial infarction.Keywords
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